Crest, KM players advance to 3A tennis regional

A doubles team from Crest, a doubles team from Kings Mountain and a pair of Crest singles players qualified for the tennis regional by advancing in the Big South 3A Conference tournament Wednesday at Forestview.

Crest’s Jordyn Powell and Lauren Scism each advanced to today’s singles semifinals to automatically qualify for the 3A West regional to be held Oct. 19-20 at East Henderson.

The Crest doubles team of Taylor Coles/Chloe Parris and the Kings Mountain doubles team of Madison Lutz/Kayla Penner also earned regional qualification by moving on to today’s semifinals.

Powell received a first-round bye before edging South Point’s Kristin Rivera 7-6, 6-2 in the second round. Scism also received a first-round bye and then dispatched Ashbrook’s Addy Goff 6-3, 6-1 in the second round.

In today’s semifinals at Forestview starting at 3 p.m., Powell will face Forestview’s Kaelan Forbes while Scism will go against South Point’s Madeline Killen.

Coles and Parris beat South Point’s Widehouse and Churn 10-6 in the first round before rallying to defeat Forestview’s Jennifer Javornik and Moser 3-6, 7-5 (10-7).